On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 11:26 AM, Mitch Bradley wrote:
> You can get the erase block size from SD cards - it's in the Card
> Specific Data structure - but I don't know of any standard way to get it
> for USB mass storage devices.
Interesting! Did a bit of looking around but can't find a commandli
You can get the erase block size from SD cards - it's in the Card
Specific Data structure - but I don't know of any standard way to get it
for USB mass storage devices.
Sascha Silbe wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 02:46:17AM +0100, Martin Dengler wrote:
>
>> Nope (SoaS) - that'll waste your par
On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 02:46:17AM +0100, Martin Dengler wrote:
Nope (SoaS) - that'll waste your partition table in favour of whatever
I copied from my dsd-inspired "make-fake-device" partition table
script[1]. I'd love patches.
From that script:
NUM_HEADS=16
NUM_SECTORS_PER_TRACK=62
That
On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 04:23:17PM -0700, S Page wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 3:10 AM, Mitch Bradley wrote:
>
> > b) If you must construct a fixed partition layout for use on multiple
> > different devices, align each partition on at least a 4MiB boundary.
> > That means that you "waste" 4M fo
OCZ Rally 2 4GB has worked fine for me for a year now. If you go for
the OCZ Rally 2 Turbo, it has higher random write speeds(faster boot,
opening apps) but I'm not sure about reliabilty. OCZ has a good
reputation for good reliability on most of it's products.
Using an USB->SD adapter with one of
On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 3:10 AM, Mitch Bradley wrote:
> b) If you must construct a fixed partition layout for use on multiple
> different devices, align each partition on at least a 4MiB boundary.
> That means that you "waste" 4M for the partition map (one 512-byte
> sector padded out to a 4 MiB b
